One of the most pressing questions for modern women is also one of the most disheartening: Are there ways to fight back against revenge porn? Once a photo is published online, it's notoriously difficult to remove, and this is doubly true when the pictures are sexual in nature. This is the Internet, after all, and if there's anything the Internet loves as much as cats, it's simultaneously begging women for nudes and punishing them for taking them. Victims of revenge porn are frequently told that the solution is "simply" never to take a nude photo, but this places blame squarely on the victims, rather than on the creeps publishing photos without the subject's consent. It's hardly logical to blame them for trusting their partners not to betray them, especially in light of the fact that sexting is an increasingly popular aspect of modern relationships.

Although the practice of uploading nude photos online without the subject's consent sounds incredibly illegal, the disturbing reality is that lawmakers have struggled to keep up with technology's ever-evolving nature. As a result, revenge porn is explicitly illegal in just 21 states, forcing many victims have to come up with increasingly creative ways to fight back. The most common practice is to copyright the images in question, which allows victims of revenge porn to claim copyright infringement and have the photos removed. However, there is a downside to this method: The U.S. Copyright Office requires applicants to provide a copy of the material they want to copyright. In other words, they have to show their nude photos to more people in order to have them removed from the Internet.

Although resources for revenge porn victims are few and far between, they are slowly increasing in number. It's not ideal, but it's a start. Let's take a look at eight ways to fight back below:

1. Save the Evidence

As tempting as it may be to follow Ron Swanson's suit, you're going to have to provide evidence of where you found images if you want them taken down. One law group's website advises taking screenshots of the webpages and printing them out, or downloading and saving any videos.

Unfortunately, removing revenge porn is an arduous, difficult process, and there's no guarantee that any of these methods will be totally successful. However, it's best to stay informed while we wait for federal and state laws catch up to technology.